Skelmorlie Village Montgomery Terrace Craig Memorial Home and Gatepiers Largs, Scotland

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Late 19th century. Large asymmetrical villa with Scottish Baronial features. Alterations & additions 1904 by Salmon Son & Gillespie (?executed) & in 1906 by Fryers and Penman of Largs. 2 storeys and attic, and set on slope, with basement raised at west. Snecked and stugged red sandstone ashlar with polished dressings. East (entrance) elevation: advanced wide gable to left (2 windows at each level), single windows in right bay (crow-stepped 1st floor dormer head). Central octagonal porch with open arcaded passage, these both timber, and balustraded: Single swept-roofed dormer with iron-balustraded platform. Low, single storey piended hall to right with some leaded lights, attic oriel in gable above: low tile-hung wing to left (service wing beyond), raised to full height on main west facade, with angle turret, corbelled above basement, octagonal and tile-hung at 1st floor, with conical roof, linked to advanced gabled bay by corbelled angle turret. Full height canted window to gabled bay, corbelled balcony to eastern bays, attic oriel in raised gablet. Interior: some good plasterwork and good panelling: north ground floor room has Corinthian pilasters, slender Corinthian columns flanking door and chimney piece; foliate patterned frieze and cornice: shallow depressed arch spanning room, spandrels decorated with knights on horseback; ribbed ceiling. Margined, square, red ashlar gatepiers have projecting caps; decorative wrought-iron gates.